Natans he/him Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) By WOB recently this was saidMe: Can you use hemalurgy to power machinery?Brandon: He was initially confused as to what I meant, so I said I got the idea from thinking about FTL travel, and he said that it was a RAFO, but that I was thinking along the right lines, there needs to be a merger between magic and technology. So, if we need we need something of be a merger between science and magic. How about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code Put a allomancer, (well the better part of him at least) in a "matrix" machine device. We are in a sci-fi setting, so lets' say insert some cranial neural electrodes mambo-jumbo to active the "almost but not quite" allomancer body using his power but at same time that you have precise controls of what is going on and voilá a very creepy Bio-FTL-Allomancer drive.Or we have the something between in this way, like if you wanna play square, use Hermalurgy to put in, let's say, a cloned body without conscious the required allomancer power to act like the bridge and tcharammmm less creepy Bio-FTL-Allomancer drive. (Ethical concern plot problems are a bonus)In a more serious way anybody asked to Brandon if the Hermalurgy could be used to give Allomancer powers to animals ? I think that readed that Kandra could receive a spike with allomancer power, but never if a dog or such could. If the answer is yes we could have something of Bio-FTL driver really going on. Crazy? Possible? Jujubes ? =) Edited January 22, 2015 by Natans
Guest Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 In a more serious way anybody asked to Brandon if the Hermalurgy could be used to give Allomancer powers to animals ? I think that readed that Kandra could receive a spike with allomancer power, but never if a dog or such could. If the answer is yes we could have something of Bio-FTL driver really going on. Crazy? Possible? Jujubes ? =) Well, we know that cats can certainly receive hemalurgic spikes, so I don't see why dogs couldn't.
Voidus Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 I think the running theory is that you just use the spike with the Allomantic spiritweb attached, not a whole person. There's some interesting stuff going on with the Southern Scadrians and Allomantic technology so hopefully we'll see it in the next trilogy.
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